My thoughts before Vietnam

These are the thoughts I had before leaving for Vietnam. Just before I got on the jet.

Busy morning of getting to the airport.

About to leave for Vietnam.

Gonna take a shit before my 8 hour flight.

Last few minutes on ground level in Australia. This is gonna be awesome XD.


-Boop!

Starting the new year off with a BLOG.

I'm extremely happy with my life at the moment.

I don't have a lot of money, I'm not really getting the hours I want at work, I'm still fat, My teeth hurt and are starting to compact as my 4 wisdom teeth are pushing through.

I don't have health insurance that will help me afford that. Nor will that same absent health insurance cover the surgery I will have to have on my leg to remove the metal from my broken leg, which is in a constant aching pain. (if I take pain killers t dulls the pain a lot but I don't want to fuck up my kidneys by living off pain killers so I gave up taking them.) and rent and bills and the lack of budgeting skills and/or follow through make saving any money incredibly difficult.

But even though there is all that shit... I'm very happy.

I'm deeply in love with my wife (I know... Gay), my relationship with my family seems like its never been better and is only improving as time passes.







I'm starting a diet, which isn't really a diet but I'm only buying foods that are good for me.

I have a cheat day (Sunday) so if you see me eating crap food on this day LAY OFF OR I'LL BITE YOUR FUCKING ARM OFF!!!

Seriously, 6 days is a hard hill to climb for me. I need that cheat day.

I've got a good thing going at my gym. Working out at getting fit. And I'm finding, the harder I push myself, the more energy I have.

And I have a lot of plans for this year and a lot of momentum in my reserves of motivation and drive to pull from for the new year.

Who knows? Maybe this is just the fresh start, new years resolution doomed to failure feeling I usually get at the start of every year speaking. But I hope it's the start of something great.

Oh! And one of my best friends and certainly my longest friend is coming back soon!!!
Joseph!!!!

Also


Gym partner and great friend Tim... Helping to keep me on the path. I don't think he knows how much I appreciate it. This getting fit and looking good thing means a lot to me and without Tim I just don't think I would be able to manage it. But I'll never say it to his face coz it very well might make me emotional and that wouldn't be manly.

AUDREY!!! Gym partner número 2. For some reason your picture is mysteriously absent from my phone. Hmm...

And



Miss you('s)


Miss you


And miss bru.

Hope to see you guys soon.

- boop!

My butt is running a marathon

Once upon a time... My butt used to feel like it at least had some degree of cushiony softness. Now it feels like a rock. That and I'm pretty sure my balls have fallen asleep. But I suppose that's the price you pay for awesome holiday adventures. On my way to Vietnam!!! The flight has been pretty cool so far. I thought when I got on I was going to have to pay for the food and drinks but nope. They give you noodles any time you want on the plane. That's pretty awesome. But they also have menus for lunch and dinner and shit. I had something that I think was called Kung Po chicken with trice and veggies. Also came with a little piece of some banana nut cake which was pretty tasty and helped with the spicy food. They also give you a bunch of drinks any time you want. The catch is that they give you these tiny little cups. But you can alcoholic drinks free to. But I'm not too keen on getting drunk before I get to the airport in Vietnam. So here's the deets as of when I'm writing this.

















I might try and squeeze in another uncomfortable nap to ward off the jet lag. Hope to see Nat and Dave and Jaz and Lana soon. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad... In a big ass plane 40,000 ft in the air. Booyah.

Location:Somewhere over the ocean on a big ass plane

Let is snow... or you know... like rain presents or some shit

IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!

WOO.

Wouldn't it be awesome if it was snowing.

I hope this Christmas pans out.

Merry Christmas

The traffic in vietnam

As soon as I got in the car from the airport I was greeted with this crazy traffic

10 minutes after they stopped laughing at me for recording touristy video the traffic got 100 times worse.

The use their indicators only when they feel like it, scooters dodge between traffic using their hands to buffer between cars.

The Side of the road you choose to drive on depends on if oncoming traffic feels threatened by your horn or not.

All this considered I love driving around on Tuyets scooter. She Directs and I drive. All I got to do is not die as try to avoid all the rocks and potholes on the road.

I went to the markets the other day to have a look around but aside for some gift ideas I think I might wait until we get into Saigon to some shopping.

The water you want to be drinking when you get here should look something like this




Note the fact that when you open the lid the seal is unbroken and it has wrapping around the lid to show it hasn't been tampered with. And you drink a shit fuck ton of water over here.

When the stores are closed and there is no water to be found it isn't too bad because Tuyet's mum boils water and chucks it in the fridge. It still feels like it has a weird taste but that's probably just because it is stale.

Pho.... Pho for breakfast. It's weird. And I don't usually finish it. Pho just doesn't seen like a breakfast food. But meh, adapt.

Lunch is usually some type of rice or noodle with some sort of meat.

My favourite meal of the day is dinner. That's probably because we keep going back for ban sow. Or something like that. It's the same stuff that Nat's mum makes. It tastes awesome.

I also love the way they make their coffee here. It's always ice coffee. I'll get a video of it next time and slap it up here.

Tuyet's dad keeps asking for arm wrestles.... He has started using two hands... I still win. LOL but it's all good fun. He also likes to take me drinking and when we drink we have this squid that he makes me dip in chili sauce (everything here has chili or some sort of spice). And then I found out that I was drinking some alcohol that he had made himself (fuck it was strong. And they drink their whiskey straight here) using fermented seahorses and some other shit... He then told me (mimed and got Tuyet to translate) that it's healthy for you but has a Viagra like effect... After we had been drinking -_-.

Google translate on my iPhone has helped a lot. And Tuyet has been teaching me more and more Vietnamese. Body language and drawing has also played a part in getting along here.




Tuyet's dad took me to this house full of women sowing embroidery onto material... I don't know why he took me but when I walked in the made a lot of noise, used all 3-6 of the English phrases they knew at me and then stared and asked questions. People here aren't used to seeing white people... And I'm too tall for this place. Keep hitting my head on shit.

Don't drink the "Pepsi" here. I did... It's not pepsi... And it was quite obviously rebottled. But even after all the food I've eaten and shit I've drank I haven't got sick yet. Knocking on wood.

Tomorrow the beach. Today... Chilling out. Might see if I can head down to one of the market places.



- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Vietnam

The flight from Australia

The airline I flew with.



The route we took. No stops, just one uncomfortable ride.


This is how the time difference works.


Where we were when I discovered this hahaha.

That'll do. BlogPress is fucking up on me so I have to blog in tiny posts.

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Necessity for Vietnam

Water... Dear god I need more water!

Especially for someone as fat as me. Today is probably going to be the hottest day. Then again the shock of that first step outside the airport was pretty horrific.

I have a headache at the moment, I think it's because I haven't had too much water today.




Just a dude rocking the old ox and cart amongst all the scooters driving so crazily on the road.

This place is crazy. But that's what I like about it. It's so different from Australia.

I'm pretty sure they use their horns over here instead of their indicators.

But I must have a death wish because I've been going around riding bitch on the back of Tuyets scooter only to find out today that she doesn't have a license to drive here either LOL!

I understand where the stereotype comes from.

They don't have iPhone sims here so Tuyet just cut the one I'm using now to fit... And it worked hahaha.

I went with Tuyet to visit her grandmother yesterday. Literally had to bend myself in half to walk in her place.

Most of the dogs don't like me here, they remind me of Nat's fat dog except these are all skinny and bigger. But they're also scared of me so that's good.

Finally got some 3G hahaha. $5 for 1gb mwuhahahahaha. And I got a new iPhone case for like $1.50. Those are the Aussie prices. I don't know how much dong it was. Hehehe dong.

I'm gonna post this now and write more later.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone... In VIETNAM bitches!!!

Location:Vietnam